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This is the eighth time that Latvijas Pasts is holding the traditional contest Mans Pastnieks (My Postman) to identify and pay tribute to the postmen and post office operators from each region of Latvia who have been recognised as the most approachab...

Latvijas Pasts has received 80 damaged postal item bags delivered from the Netherlands by air. Several bags with the items received are soaked through, while others have even fallen apart, so it is impossible to identify the addressees for some of th...

In 2019 Latvijas Pasts plans to make 20 stamp releases – a total of 25 postage stamps and one stamp block with the overall print run of more than six million copies. The new stamps will be both included in the already familiar series and designed as ...

Due to cargo handling problems at the airport of the Ukrainian capital Kiev, the air traffic of postal items to Ukraine has been completely suspended. Airlines have now imposed a ban on accepting such items until the second week of January 2019. A as...